Extragalactic Astrophysics, Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna
I have started my approved FWF project to explore the enigmatic [OII] Blobs, extending over hundreds square kpc, which I discovered with VLT-MUSE (Maier et al. 2025).
The question is if these Blobs are tracing Galaxy Quenching or a Forming Galaxy Cluster, XMM2215 at z~1.46 near cosmic noon. See my FWF project details here.
My FWF Austrian Science Funding Proposal to study Blobs and Ram-Pressure 
Stripping in the XMM2215 z~1.5 galaxy cluster was approved ! See project details here.
I will give a talk presentation at the EAS 2026 meeting in Lausanne about the 
warm ionized medium (WIM) in a cluster of galaxies at z~1.5, using MUSE observations compared to COLIBRE and TNG simulations.
In January 2026 I will give a lunch talk at ESO Garching about the enigmatic Blobs in a cluster of galaxies near cosmic noon (publication Maier, Ziegler & Kodama 2025).
In December 2025 I will give a talk about the enigmatic Blobs in a cluster of 
galaxies near cosmic noon (which I discovered this year) at the Wienerwald Astronomy Symposium 2025.
In October 2025 I will give a talk about the enigmatic Blobs in a cluster of galaxies near cosmic noon (which I discovered this year) at the conference MMC 2025.
The conference MMC (Multi-phase, Multi-temperature and Complex) will take place in Olbia/Italy from October 6 to October 10.
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A thesis about a MUSE analysis of Abell 370 cluster galaxies at redshift z~0.375 under my supervision has been just finished. Subtle evidence for cluster driven evolution was found and requires further analysis to confirm preliminary results.
In Winter-Semester 2025, starting on 28 October 2025 until end of January 2026: